Working on a Dream
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
God is a dreamer. Where there was darkness he created a world. Where there was a world he began a relationship. Whether you favor creationism or evolution, the God who saw things that were not brought them to be. He dreamed.
...the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
Romans 4:17
We worship a creative, persuasive, innovative, and powerful God. We worship a dreamer. It is fitting that his people and church should dream as well. In fact, it is the churches responsibility to let the world know that God is a dreamer.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen
Ephesians 3:20-21
Here in the Bay Area Christian Church we are determined to glorify God by dreaming. We believe the pages of scripture tell the story of a church that was creative, persuasive, innovative, and powerful. In short they were just like the God they worshiped. This is the type of church we want to be. It is the dream we are working on.
This dream requires that we build on the rock rather than the sand. It is about the triumph of scripture over opinion, innovation over tradition, and relationshp over ritual.
The difficult, turbulent and ultimately transformational times in which we now live are literally pleading for God's church to dream again. Everyone is familiar with the religious traditions passed on from generation to generation. Most have grown weary of these same failed ideas framing the present as they have the past.
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming-not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Hebrews 10:1
The church that fulfills God's dream in this century will be the one that moves out from the shadows of the past to create the realities of the future. It must refuse to look backward in regret, inward in fear, or downward in defeat. The future is seeks to build comes from a forward-looking faith that never stops working on the dream.
This is the church we seek and believe we will become.
Read in each of the sections on the front page, about the components of our church: 'Our Focus', 'Our Future', 'Our Family', 'Our Community' and 'Our World'. In each of these sections you will learn about the many ways we provide opportunities to personally grow, to help our family and others grow, to do good in our community and to change the world we live in.